Striped knitted fabric



No. 609,707. Patented Aug. 23, |898. R. W. SCOTT.

STRIPED KNITTED FABRIC.

[Application led Feb. 25, 189B.)

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ROBERT W. SCOTT, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- IIALF TO LOUIS N. D. WILLIAMS, OF ASHBOURNE, PENNSYLVANIA.

STRIVPAED KNITT ED FABRIC..

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 609,707', dated August 23, 1898. Application led February 25 1898. Serial No. 671,650. (No model.)

T all whom it may concern:

phia,Pennsylvania,have invented certain Improvements in Striped Knitted Fabrics, of

which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to produce a n knitted fabric having a stripe or stripes parallel with the wales, an object which I attain in the manner hereinafter set forth, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l represents an exaggerated view of a piece of knitted fabric having a stripe formed therein in accordance with my invention, and Fig. 2 is a like View illustrating another embodiment of the invention. Y

My invention consists in interposing between adjoining wales Aof a knitted fabric a chain of stitches parallel with the wales and engaging with the knitting-yarn by being wrapped around said yarn where the same crosses from wale to wale, the purpose of this chain of stitches being to form in the knitted fabric a longitudinal stripe, which may be used alone or may be combined with transverse stripes formed by means of change inv the color of the yarn, whereby the` knitted courses are produced, the result being a plaid elfect.

In the drawings I have shown two pieces of knitted fabric, each having eight wales, which I have numbered, respectively, l, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and S, each of these wales consisting of six courses of stitches, and between the wales 4: and 5 I have interposed a chain of stitches which constitutes the stripe, this chain having a stitch for each course of the knitted fabric and engaging with the knitting-yarn of each course where the latter crosses from the wale 4 to the wale 5.

In producing my improved fabric I can use an ordinary knitting-machine, having introduced therein at each point where a stripe is to be produced in the knitted fabric a needle supplied with yarn independent of the knitting-yarn, so that it will produce a continuous chain of stitches, this needle being operated independently of the knitting-needles, so that where it occursva stitch of the knitted fabric will be dropped, and the knitting-yarn can be laid across the face of the striping-needle be- Beit known that I, ROBERT W. SCOTT,a citi- Zen of the United States, residing in Philadellow the latch, whereby when the needle descends so as to draw a new stitch said knittingyarnwill be cast off and knocked over with the striping-stitch already on the needle. Hence the striping-needle will on each operation descend behind the knitting-yarn and rise in front of the same, so as to cause the striping-yarn to be wrapped around the knitting-yarn where the latter crosses from Wale to wale of the fabric in the manner which I have shown in the drawings.

The difference in the character of the wrap of the striping-yarn shown in the two ligures of the drawings arises from the fact that in making the fabric shown in Fig. l the stripingyarn guide travels around the striping-needle, so that the said yarn always engages with the knitting-yarn on the same side of said needle, while in making the fabric shown in Fig. 2 the striping-yarn guide reciprocates, whereby said yarn engages with the knitting-yarn rst on one side of the striping-needle and then on the opposite side of the same.

Although I prefer to form in the chain of striping-stitches a stitch for each course of the knitted fabric, this is not necessary to the proper attainment of my invention, as there may be two or more stitches of the stripingchain for each course of knitted fabric, or, on the other. hand, there may be two or more courses of knitted fabric for each stitch of the striping-chain, and although Ihave shown my invention as applied to a plain knitted fabric it willbe evident that it may be applied to ribbed fabrics as well, and the stripe may, if desired, comprise two or more wales instead of but one, said wales each being composed of a separate striping-thread or all of the wales being knitted with a single striping-thread.

I am aware that it has before been proposed to produce longitudinal stripes in knitted fabrics by forming therein at intervals a double yarn-Wale by feeding to one or to each of a series of the knitting-needles an additional yarn or yarns, whereby the stitches drawn by said needle or needles will comprise both the regular knitting-yarn 'and the additional yarn; but

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with the knitting-yarn where the latter crosses from Wale to Wale, so that the striping-yarn alone forms the stripe, which is therefore uniform, whereas in the case of a double yarn- Wale either of the strands may appear on the surface, and the continuity of color in the stripe is thus subject to constant interruption.

I am also aware that it has been proposed to form a stripe in a knitted fabric by means of a continuous chain of stitches engaging with the courses of the fabric between adjoining wales; but in such case the striping-yarn was not Wrapped around the knitting-yarn where the latter crossed from Wale to Wale, as in my fabric, in which the stitches of the striping-Wale are much more firmly united to the knitted web than in such prior patented fabric and are less subject to displacement.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. A knitted fabric having a chain of stitches between and parallel with the wales of said knitted fabric and composed of yarn independent of the knitting-yarn but Wrapped around said knitting-yarn Where the same crosses from Wale to Wale, substantially as specified.

2. A knitted fabric having a chain of stitches between and parallel with the Wales of said knitted fabric and having a stitch for each course of said knitted fabric, said chain being composed'of yarn independent of the knitting-yarn but Wrapped around said knitting-yarn Where the latter crosses from Wale to Wale, substantially as specified.

3. A knitted fabric having dropped stitches replaced by stitches of a knitted chain parallel with the wales of said knitted fabric and Wrapped around the knitting-yarn at such dropped stitches, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' ROBERT IV. SCOTT.

Witnesses:

F. E. BEGHTOLD, JOS. H. KLEIN. 

